Word: chambliss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Country Boy. He graduated, from Yale Law School in 1927, and was a good lawyer right from the beginning. He turned out to have a special way with juries that brought him a bid from the topflight Chattanooga law firm of Sizer and Chambliss. "Keef handled a jury like a country boy," said one of his ex-partners recently. "He would establish himself as a country boy, then recite the facts and lead the jury along. He used language the jurors could understand. He never tried to be eloquent or quoted poetry...